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Seneca woman Ah-Weh-Eyu (Pretty Flower), 1908.The Seneca are a group of Indigenous Iroquoian-speaking people who histori...
09/15/2023

Seneca woman Ah-Weh-Eyu (Pretty Flower), 1908.
The Seneca are a group of Indigenous Iroquoian-speaking people who historically lived south of Lake Ontario, one of the five Great Lakes in North America. Their nation was the farthest to the west within the Six Nations or Iroquois League (Haudenosaunee) in New York before the American Revolution.
A Seneca oral tradition states that the tribe originated in a village called Nundawao, near the south end of Canandaigua Lake, at South Hill. Close to South Hill stands the 865 foot (264 m)-high Bare Hill, known to the Seneca as Genundowa. Bare Hill is part of the Bare Hill Unique Area, which began to be acquired by the state in 1989. Bare Hill had been the site of a Seneca (or Seneca-ancestral people) fort.

A Dakota woman and her children1920
09/08/2023

A Dakota woman and her children
1920

Geraldine Keams (born August 19, 1951 in Flagstaff, Arizona) is an Navajo actress. She is best known for her work in num...
09/08/2023

Geraldine Keams (born August 19, 1951 in Flagstaff, Arizona) is an Navajo actress. She is best known for her work in numerous television series. Keams made her film debut playing Little Moonlight in Clint Eastwood's western, The Outlaw Josey Wales in 1976.
In addition to her film work, Keams gives live performances and workshops. She is a resident artist at the Los Angeles Music Center. Keam currently resides in Pasadena, California.

Chief Oshkosh (1795-1858) was the chief of the Menominee tribe from 1827 until his death. He played a key role in treaty...
09/07/2023

Chief Oshkosh (1795-1858) was the chief of the Menominee tribe from 1827 until his death. He played a key role in treaty negotiations as the Menominee tried to protect their lands in Wisconsin from being granted to Oneida and other tribes from New York state and European-American pioneers.
Chief Oshkosh and his grandchildren

A tipi (tee-pee), is a tent, traditionally made of animal skins upon wooden poles. Modern tipis usually have a canvas co...
09/07/2023

A tipi (tee-pee), is a tent, traditionally made of animal skins upon wooden poles. Modern tipis usually have a canvas covering. A tipi is distinguished from other conical tents by the smoke flaps at the top of the structure.
Historically, the tipi has been used by Indigenous peoples of the Plains in the Great Plains and Canadian Prairies of North America, notably the seven sub-tribes of the Dakota, among the Iowa people, the Otoe and Pawnee, and among the Blackfeet, Crow, Assiniboines, and Plains Cree.
They are also traditional on the other side of the Rocky Mountains by tribes such as the Yakama and the Cayuse. They are still in use in many of these communities, though now primarily for ceremonial purposes rather than daily living. While Native American tribes and First Nation band governments from other regions have used other types of dwellings (pueblos, wigwams, and longhouses), tipis are often stereotypically and incorrectly associated with ALL Native Americans in the United States and Aboriginal Canadians.
The tipi is durable, provides warmth and comfort in winter, is cool in the heat of summer, and is dry during heavy rains. Tipis can be disassembled and packed away quickly when people need to relocate and can be reconstructed quickly upon settling in a new area. Historically, this portability was important to Plains Indians with their at-times nomadic lifestyle.
Oglala Lakota tipi, 1891

Comanche girls in buckskin, graduates of the Fort Sill Indian School, Oklahoma. Photo from 1920-1930.
09/06/2023

Comanche girls in buckskin, graduates of the Fort Sill Indian School, Oklahoma. Photo from 1920-1930.

Iron Hail (Dewey Beard) and Little Chief, Miniconjou, Lakota, Pine Ridge Reservation, SD
09/06/2023

Iron Hail (Dewey Beard) and Little Chief, Miniconjou, Lakota, Pine Ridge Reservation, SD

Dewey Beard or Wasú Máza ("Iron Hail", 1858–1955) was a Lakota who fought in the Battle of Little Bighorn as a teenager....
09/05/2023

Dewey Beard or Wasú Máza ("Iron Hail", 1858–1955) was a Lakota who fought in the Battle of Little Bighorn as a teenager. After George Armstrong Custer's defeat, Wasú Máza followed Sitting Bull into exile in Canada and then back to South Dakota where he lived on the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation.

Sonsola-In-Ha-Wi-Ye, Called Owinza Mule, Dakota Oglala, wearing an elk teeth dress 1897.Among North American animals, on...
09/05/2023

Sonsola-In-Ha-Wi-Ye, Called Owinza Mule, Dakota Oglala, wearing an elk teeth dress 1897.
Among North American animals, only walruses and elk have ivory teeth. In walruses these are tusks, but in elk they are anatomically similar to the remaining teeth. These ivories, also called "buglers" or "whistlers," rest in the upper jaw, on each side of the incisors, or front teeth. In prehistoric times, these ivory teeth were perhaps 6 to 8 inches long.

The Apache are a group of culturally related Native American tribes in the Southwestern United States, which include the...
09/05/2023

The Apache are a group of culturally related Native American tribes in the Southwestern United States, which include the Chiricahua, Jicarilla, Lipan, Mescalero, Mimbreño, Ndendahe (Bedonkohe or Mogollon and Nednhi or Carrizaleño and Janero), Salinero, Plains (Kataka or Semat or "Kiowa-Apache") and Western Apache (Aravaipa, Pinaleño, Coyotero, Tonto). Distant cousins of the Apache are the Navajo, with whom they share the Southern Athabaskan languages. There are Apache communities in Oklahoma and Texas, and reservations in Arizona and New Mexico. Apache people have moved throughout the United States and elsewhere, including urban centers. The Apache Nations are politically autonomous, speak several different languages, and have distinct cultures.
Historically, the Apache homelands have consisted of high mountains, sheltered and watered valleys, deep canyons, deserts, and the southern Great Plains, including areas in what is now Eastern Arizona, Northern Mexico (Sonora and Chihuahua) and New Mexico, West Texas, and Southern Colorado. These areas are collectively known as Apacheria.
The Apache tribes fought the invading Spanish and Mexican peoples for centuries. The first Apache raids on Sonora appear to have taken place during the late 17th century. In 19th-century confrontations during the American-Indian wars, the U.S. Army found the Apache to be fierce warriors and skillful strategists.

Counting coup was the winning of prestige against an enemy by the Plains Tribes of North America. Warriors won prestige ...
09/04/2023

Counting coup was the winning of prestige against an enemy by the Plains Tribes of North America. Warriors won prestige by acts of bravery in the face of the enemy, which could be recorded in various ways and retold as stories. Any blow struck against the enemy counted as a coup, but the most prestigious acts included touching an enemy warrior with the hand, bow, or coup stick and escaping unharmed. Touching the first enemy to die in battle or touching the enemy's defensive works also counted as coup, as did, in some nations, simply riding up to an enemy, touching him with a short stick, and riding away unscathed. Counting coup could also involve stealing an enemy's weapons or horses tied up to his lodge in camp. Risk of injury or death was required to count coup.
Escaping unharmed while counting coup was considered a higher honor than being wounded in the attempt. A warrior who won coup was permitted to wear an eagle feather in his hair. If he had been wounded in the attempt, however, he was required to paint the feather red to indicate this.
After a battle or exploit, the people of a band would gather together to recount their acts of bravery and "count coup". Coups were recorded by putting notches in a coup stick. Some of the Pacific Northwest tribes would tie an eagle feather to their coup stick for each coup counted, but many nations did not do so. Among the Blackfoot nation of the upper Missouri River Valley, coup could be recorded by the placement of "coup bars" on the sleeves and shoulders of special shirts that bore paintings of the warrior's exploits in battle. Many shirts of this sort have survived to the present, including some in European museums.
Joe Medicine Crow (1913–2016) is credited with achieving the feat while serving with the US Army during World War II, as on one occasion he overpowered and disarmed a German soldier, and later stole horses from an SS unit.
Piegan warrior wearing a war bonnet and holding a coup stick, Edward Curtis, 1910

Spies On the Enemy, Crow, 1898Photo by Frank Rinehart
09/03/2023

Spies On the Enemy, Crow, 1898
Photo by Frank Rinehart

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